Institut Universitari de Recerca en Ciència i Tecnologies de la Sostenibilitat

L’IS.UPC és una unitat bàsica de la UPC que s’organitza com a institut per a la promoció i la realització de recerca en sostenibilitat.La missió de l’Institut és la generació de les eines tècniques i conceptuals necessàries per ajudar a transformar el nostre model productiu vers la sostenibilitat, i la col·laboració, en aquesta direcció, en la tasca de la UPC de suport científic i tècnic al progrés social, cultural i econòmic de la societat.


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Recent Submissions

Arraigo: estudios sobre el riesgo desde la resistencia y la crítica al reasentamiento de población en Bogotá 

López Meneses, Duván Hernán (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)

(English) The investigation of climate risks affecting the popular neighborhoods in the mountainous outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, has served as a case study and starting point to critically study the concept of risk and ...

Marco de referencia para la planificación y desarrollo continuo de la comunicación de riesgos y crisis frente a amenazas en Sudamérica 

Marcillo Delgado, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2023-10-13)

(English) Research on risk communication and crisis communication (RC&C) is a crucial aspect to foster population resilience in the face of major hazards, especially in developing economies where there are greater social ...

Metodologia integral de perfilat ràpid intel·ligent i interpretable pel suport a la presa de decisions complexes (MIPRI2D). Aplicacions a sostenibilitat 

Angerri Torredeflot, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-07-25)

(English) Living in the era of big data and artificiall intelligence this thesis wants to contribute with a new methodology to support data-driven decisions rapidly after data collection, and a technological infrastructure ...

Modelització energètica d’edificis a escala urbana a Andorra. Reducció dels desajustos dels models mitjançant dades de consum d'energia desagregades 

Borges Martins, Patricia Alexandra (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)

(English) The building sector has nowadays become a key point for policies and strategies to reduce energy and greenhouse gas emissions. The significant and unprecedented urban expansion that occurred in recent years and ...

Caracterización y modelación del sistema agroalimentario sostenible en la comunidad de Ziparadó, Resguardo indígena Embera Dóbida de Tanela, municipio de Unguía, departamento del Chocó, Colombia. 

Botero Posada, Simón Andrés (Date of defense: 2022-11-29)

(English) Agro-food systems in indigenous communities, due to their characteristics of complexity and adaptability, must be studied from a multidimensional perspective. In this class of systems, economic, political, ...

L'experiència acadèmica i el benestar de l'estudiantat en situació de risc en estudis STEM 

Baltà Salvador, Rosó (Date of defense: 2022-06-29)

One of the main goals of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development is to guarantee quality education for all students, especially the most vulnerable. Engineering studies are a key element in educating and training future ...

Contextualización de la enseñanza de las matemáticas en las carreras tecnológicas 

López Díaz, María Teresa (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)

The teaching of Mathematics has been always a matter of great concern at all academic levels and more especially in technological degrees. Both the contents of mathematical subjects and the way they are taught, have been ...

The management of fire complexity at the edge of criticality 

Oliveres Solé, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-02-02)

Fire regimes are changing under the influence of global change. On the European continent, landscape memory in the 21st century is dominated by an accumulation of forest fuel and irrupted by a progressive climatic forcing ...

Assessment of the societal impact of research and innovation in the agri-food sector 

Chams, Nour (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)

Research value, research relevance, research quality, and research impact have been widely tackled by various disciplines, such as health, engineering, management, and sustainability. How research and innovation are being ...

Un enfoque holísitico para evaluar la Sostenibilidad de las Indicaciones Geográficas : una aplicación a las DOP de aceite en Cataluña 

Guadarrama Fuentes, Omar Vicente (Date of defense: 2022-06-01)

The importance of Geographical Indications (GI) has grown considerably in recent years as an opportunity for product differentiation for specific segments of the population. The continuous increase in the number of certified ...

Animal welfare in Europe and Iran: policy perspective and society 

Pejman, Niloofar (Date of defense: 2022-03-10)

Intensive animal production systems are compromising current animal welfare standards. Societies' growing concerns regarding how animals are raised have resulted in continuous policy reforms and regulations that have banned ...

Innovation of the process-equipment system in a context of sustainability 

Ridaura Aldana, Gregorio (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)

In search to contribute to the current fight against climate change, the industrial sector is immersed in a transition to the Circular Economy (CE) to achieve resource efficiency through the redesign of products and ...

Reconstrucción de la variabilidad climática para el oeste de Chihuahua, México, empleando un enfoque dendrocronológico 

Miranda Briones, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2021-12-01)

Tree rings play a relevant role for the reconstruction of climatic variables on centuries or millennia-scale. In the presence of anthropogenic climate change, and in the absence of extensive meteorological records, ...

Evaluación de planes de electrificación rural y propuesta de planificación con criterios técnicos y sociales 

Gómez Hernández, Dorian Francisco (Date of defense: 2021-11-18)

Energy access allows to improve population life quality, specifically in terms of food, education and health. Currently, 10% of the world population does not have electricity. 85% of this population is mainly concentrated ...

Development of a standardized tool to calculate carbon footprint in ports 

Azarkamand, Sahar (Date of defense: 2021-11-04)

An important goal to tackle environmental problems and foster sustainable development in the near future is to reduce the generation of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from different industrial sectors including ports. ...

Memoria biocultural del conocimiento ancestral del agua para la resiliencia comunitaria : casos de estudio Embera-Katios y Zenúes (Colombia) 

Moreno Barros, Ángela María (Date of defense: 2021-07-14)

The present research titled: “BIOCULTURAL MEMORY OF THE ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE OF WATER FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE. CASE STUDIES EMBERA-KATIOS Y ZENÚES (COLOMBIA) ”, has the general objective of documenting ...

From low carbon buildings to sustainable cities : sustainability transitions in the built environment towards the UN Agenda 

Penagos, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)

This thesis addresses sustainability transitions in the built environment, from buildings to the metropolitan scale, while ranging from low carbon development to the multidimensional challenges currently faced by cities. ...

Análisis composicional de la segregación socioespacial en la ciudad de Guadalajara, México 

Cruz Sandoval, Marco Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)

In recent years, rapid population growth and the accelerated urbanization of cities as a result of different economic, political and social forces have been accentuating the unequal distribution of the different socio-economic ...

Sustainability of the agri-food system’s characterization with food sovereignty framework and the evaluation approach of the ajor threats 

Ruiz Almeida, Adriana (Date of defense: 2021-04-29)

Nowadays, around 690 million undernourished people worldwide, even though the world already produces enough food to feed more than the whole current population. This situation is far from diminishing due to the current ...

Propuesta metodológica para la implantación del análisis de riesgo en las auditorías de eficiencia energética 

Carrés Gonzàlez, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-02-23)

Energy audits have been, and are basically the study and analysis of energy flows in a building, process or system with the aim of knowing its behavior in order to find possibilities for energy improvement. It is primarily ...

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